Fragments of life, metaphysics, and art
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書誌事項
Fragments of life, metaphysics, and art
Transaction Publishers, 1995
2nd ed
大学図書館所蔵 全2件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
To students of Leo Bronstein, this second edition of a classic text, first published in 1953, is a welcome and long-awaited event. To those unfamiliar with Bronstein's work, Fragments of life, Metaphysics and Art will be a fascinating introduction to the philosophic and aesthetic concerns of a subtle and supremely sensitive artistic mind.
A series of imaginary letters from various individuals--prisoner, soldier, philosopher, mathematician, and teacher--the book challenges the man-made distinction between spirit and matter, yet embraces the two-fold pattern of history and consciousness. Through a -fissure or tear in the accustomed, - as one letter puts it, one sees the relationships of the fragment to the whole. Each of the writers yearns for the whole and seeks to find it in the fragment that has meaning for him. And it is chiefly in art that Leo Bronstein finds both the fragment and the whole of life, -material and moral, - to be seized and probed and prized. Indeed, in synthesizing the ideas expressed therein, Bronstein presents a brief but brilliantly illustrated history of the worlds of Western art.
This work, a book -of space- conceived amid the horrors of the Second World War, remains remarkably, unexpectedly, illuminatively contemporary. Prior to the contentious debates on multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural studies, Leo Bronstein's approach to life, metaphysics, and art was absolutely interdisciplinary, pluralistic in its themes and insights. A scholar who foresaw the globalization of our concerns, he provides the tools for an empathic understanding of the contributions of a myriad of cultures to the constellation of what has become a global consciousness.
The great Arthur Upham Pope, this century's foremost authority on the history and culture of Persia and Chancellor of the Asia Institute, termed Bronstein -original, penetrating, and poetic.- -He spoke, - says Meyer Schapiro, -with the confidence of a man who, when he referred to freedom and art, spoke like a prophet--without making predictions.-
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